I love healthy breakfast bars, like my Vegan Blueberry Breakfast Bars, Healthy Date Bars, or Strawberry Oatmeal Bars. This convenient on-the-go breakfast and also sweet, delicious healthy bars that almost taste like dessert. These healthy apple pie bars are very similar but full of Fall spices to celebrate the cold weather with a sweet, healthy breakfast.
Ingredients and Substitutions
First, prepare all your ingredients. All you need to make healthy apple bars are:
Oat flour. We make our own oat flour by grinding gluten-free certified rolled oat thinly into a food processor. You can replace this with all-purpose flour or almond flour. Rolled oats. Also known as instant oats. Coconut oil. Or vegan butter if preferred. Maple syrup. Or other vegan-friendly liquid sweeteners like agave syrup. Note that the bars will be sweeter with agave. Salt Vanilla extract Apples. Use crunchy apple variety like jazz, honey crisp, or pink lady. Cinnamon Nutmeg. Optional, but it enhances the Fall flavor of these vegan apple oat bars. Cornstarch or arrowroot flour
Choosing the Best Apples
Not all apples are equal when it comes to baking and creating desserts. In fact, some apples become soft and mushy in the oven, and it can ruin your recipe. The go-to apples for a sweet apple bar (or apple pie) are crunchy, firm apples that hold their shape when cooked. The top 10 apple varieties for apple pie, bars that are sweet, firm, and have a perfect balance of crunch and sweetness are:
Granny smiths Honey crisp Pink lady Golden Delicious Jonagold Jazz Braeburn Northern spy Mcintosh Red Delicious
How To Make Apple Oatmeal Bars
These healthy apple breakfast bars are easy to make in a few steps. The base and crumble toppings use the exact same recipe.
Serving
You can eat these apple oat bars plain or with some peanut butter caramel. To make the caramel combine all the ingredients below to form a sticky, runny vegan caramel.
Peanut butter or almond butter for less saturated fat. Maple syrup Coconut oil
Drizzle the caramel on top of the bar just before serving. You can also serve these bars plain or with a dollop of dairy-free yogurt like coconut yogurt.
Storage Instructions
These bars must be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 4 days. They soften with time, but you can rewarm the bars in a hot oven for 8-10 minutes just before serving. You can also freeze the bars into a box and thaw them on a plate the day before at room temperature.
More Healthy Vegan Breakfast Recipes
We love to start the day with healthy vegan breakfast bars or cookies made of oats. In fact, oats are fulfilling nutritious cereals full of plant-based protein, perfect to start the day with energy on your vegan journey. Below I listed some healthy vegan breakfast recipes:
